Joly de Lotbinière was the incumbent, since he had become premier two months earlier when the previous Conservative premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville had resigned or was deposed by the Lieutenant Governor, who refused to approve railroad legislation that had been passed by both houses of the Quebec legislature.
Joly de Lotbinière did not quite win the election: the Conservatives won 32 seats to the Liberals' 31 (and there were two "Independent Conservatives"). However, four Conservatives supported him, allowing him to form a minority government. However, the Legislative Council pushed him to resign on October 31, 1879 and the Conservative Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau then took office.
Quebec (1664) which, suppressed by the Bull of erection of the diocese, was reestablished by the bishop in 1684 and united to the seminary; he also instituted a
Quebec, begun in 1647, consecrated in 1666 by the prelate, became and remains the cathedral.
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